Improvement in scythes



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Scythe.

Patented May 4, 1869.

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- WILL-1AM LOWDEN, or THORNAPPLE, MICHIGAN.

' Letters Patent No. 89,778, dated May 4, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN SOYTHE'S' The Schedule referred to in these Letters-Patent and making p Of the Game- To all whom it may concern: Be it known that I, WILLIAM LOWDEN, of the town of Thornapple, in the county of Barry, and State of Michigan, have invented a new and improved Grass and Grain-Scythe, for mowing grass or reaping grain and I do hereby declare that the following is a full,

clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification,"in which- Figure 1 represents the scythe, as adjusted to a grain-cradle.

Figure 2, the scythe alone, which is similar to an ordinary scythe, with the exception of the extension of the blade of the scythe back of the heel in the form of an, are, a distance of twelve to sixteen inches, so as to out the grass or grain that would, without sucl 1 extension of the blade, slip by the heel of .the scythe in WILLIAM Lownnrn Witnesses:

JOHN A. MARTIN, HARVEY WRIGHT. 

